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DRAWBRS,.&0.' No. 267,333.. Pamented Nov. 14,1882.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,333, dated November 14, 188 Application filed April 10, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM DAUB, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drawers and Similar Garments; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a partot' this specification.

My invention relates to the means of supporting drawers and similar garments, and

more particularly to a means of securing the Suspender-brace in connection with such drawers or similar garments that shall be at once more economical of manufacture and more convenient and durable in use than the present devices.

The Suspender-brace, well known in the art, is a strip or strips of linen, tape, cord, or similar material, fastened at both ends to the draw ers orother garment to be supported, usually to the upper front waistband of the same, and through the loop so formed the suspender-tip is passed by the wearer before being buttoned to the pantaloons. Heretot'ore the suspenderbrace has been attached to the drawers by sewing it onto the same. This-is a slow operation. The sewing is apt to tear, and whenever it does tear or the brace breaks the operation of sewin g must be repeated.

My improvement consists in stamping aseries of permanent eyelets through the drawers or other garment to be supported, or working holes therein.

It further consists in securing the cord or tape that is to form the brace by stamping it; through by the eyelets thatarestampcdthrough the drawers.

It still further consists in such a method of securing the brace in these eyelets or holes, where two or more loops are formed, that the material of the brace is free to be drawn, within limits, from one loop into another loop, according to the varying strain arising from different movements of the wearer and from other causes.

string or piece of tape through the eyelets or holes and secure it so as to form the desired loops; also, in the capacity of distributing the strain over the whole of the brace, and thereby decreasing the liability to give way at any one point.

Figure 1 illustrates an application of myimprovement to a pair of drawers embodying all the improved features referred to. a, b, c, and d are eyelets in the drawers A. The suspender-brace e is fastened to a by being stamped through by the metal eyelet a, which eyeletpasses through the garment A as well. The brace then passes through eyelet b, to the rear of the garment through eyelet c, to the front again, and finallyis fastened bythemetal eyelet d, 'ust as at a. The arrangement shown forms a brace with two loops, one for each suspender-tip. It may of course be modified as desired-as, for example, two parallel braces maybe employed for strength, or three or more successive loops may be formed by the use of six or more eyelets, the ends being fastened, as shown.

In a modified form of the arrangement shown in Fig. 1. the brace, instead of being stamped through by the eyelets a and d, is knotted at these points in rear of the eyelets, passing to the front through said eyelets, which, in that case, may be replaced by worked holes, if desired. In other respects the construction is identical with that shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 2 shows another application of my invention, in which the two eyelets b and c are replaced by one eyelet, i, and the brace, passing to the rear through the eyelet i, returns to the front through the same eyelet, after being knotted or otherwise suitably caught at the rear 5 or the brace may be secured to the drawers at i by being stamped through by theeyelet i itself.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a pair of drawers or similar garments provided with a series of two or more permanently stamped or worked eyelets or holes, in combination with a Suspender-brace, 0, applied as and for the purposes set forth.

2. As a new article of n'ianufacture, a pair of drawers or similar garments provided with a series of two or more permanently stamped or worked eyelets or holes, in combination a ith a suspender-brace, 0, whereby the suspenderbrace may be readily applied and replaced, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a pair of drawers or similar garments provided with permanently stamped or worked eyelets or holes, in combination with a suspender-brace, 0, whereby the material of the brace is free to be drawn from one loop to another with the varying strain substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

7 YVM. DAUB.

lVitnesses:

DANIEL EINHORN, LoUIs H. NAUMANN. 

